Crispy roast potatoes and browned toast give you cancer, apparently.

[Sir C]

What kind of a cünt would even consider eating a non-crispy roast potato? Literally what would be the point?

This will alter the way I roast potatoes or toast bread not one jot.

More by accident than design, I made an absolutely fantastic dinner last night. Rump of lamb pan fried and basted with butter, red wine and rosemary jus reduced to sticky, savoury unctuousness and a meltingly soft and garlicky dauphinoise with just enough Parmesan in it for umami. Nothing fancy - indeed pretty simple meat and potatoes, really - but everything in it was spot on.

Good work. I don't think I've ever played with a lamb rump. I did a couple of good shanks last week, mind.

Also, whilst up norf earlier in the month, I did a Lancashire hot pot, something I've always wanted to try, but used neck fillet instead of chops. It was really, really good. wd neck fillet.

[Burney]

Good work. I don't think I've ever played with a lamb rump. I did a couple of good shanks last week, mind.

Also, whilst up norf earlier in the month, I did a Lancashire hot pot, something I've always wanted to try, but used neck fillet instead of chops. It was really, really good. wd neck fillet.

Nor me, actually, but it was beautifully tender. I was going to try that moussaka again yesterday, but the great 2017 courgette crisis meant I was foiled in that regard.

I think traditionally, one is supposed to use scrag end of neck in a hotpot, but I agree that neck fillet is the only thing for a lamb stew. Do you have the recipe?

[Sir C]

Nor me, actually, but it was beautifully tender. I was going to try that moussaka again yesterday, but the great 2017 courgette crisis meant I was foiled in that regard.

I think traditionally, one is supposed to use scrag end of neck in a hotpot, but I agree that neck fillet is the only thing for a lamb stew. Do you have the recipe?

I think I read a couple of recipes and cobbled an amalgam together; layer of potato on the bottom, onions, rosemary, lamb and stock, potatoes on top dotted with a lot of butter and allowed enough time and heat to crisp up properly. Must more than the sum of its parts.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Scientists are a bunch of fun sponges, basically. Probably socialists. They see something enjoyable - anything enjoyable - and label it cancerous.

Pokster-style chip-pissers to a man.

but to balance, chocolate is now found to help with blood circulation, can help you lose weight and help the brain old farts as they get to old age. Go figure.

Who in their right mind would want an barely toasted toast or a soggy roasted potato?